Abstract
In her proposal Claudia Maienborn attempts to provide evidence above all for the following basic claims: First, stative verbal expressions, regardless of whether they represent stage-level or individual-level predicates, pattern with eventive expressions in introducing a hidden referential argument which can be located in time and may serve as an antecedent for anaphoric reference. What separates statives from eventives is that their arguments are not dynamic but static entities, that is, states. Secondly, statives do not form a homogeneous class of expressions. While verbs like stand, sit, and sleep pass all of the relevant eventuality diagnostics, pattering also in this respect with eventives, copula constructions as well as verbs like know, hate, and resemble fail most of these tests.
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